Psuedo German number plates

[boxedin]

mein gott... who cares. as long as the plate is unique and belongs to someone / a vehicle it really, doesn't matter. honestly it really doesn't matter.

or just stick a barcode on the vehicle.

all this cobblers about machine readable yadda-yadda... its 2014 we can read any plate, any font from just about anywhere.

[Stoofa]

If machine readable was all that mattered then indeed a barcode would be the best solution. However the whole idea is that they should also be human readable - so in a format and font the human is expecting to see.

I'm not "Overly bothered" in that there is nothing I can personally do about it. Whenever I see a car with these stupid plates on I just think "tt" and get on with my day.

[Vaud]

boxedin said:

mein gott... who cares. as long as the plate is unique and belongs to someone / a vehicle it really, doesn't matter. honestly it really doesn't matter.

or just stick a barcode on the vehicle.

all this cobblers about machine readable yadda-yadda... its 2014 we can read any plate, any font from just about anywhere.

Load of tosh, sorry.

How about witnesses to an accident? Correlation of even partial number plate is a good way of finding vehicles.

Or can humans read bar codes?
Well officer, it was "thick, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thick, thick, thin"

[Pit Pony]

Roo said:

Pit Pony said:

My uncle had a German registered car when he worked in Munich, and the Local Gestapo took exception to him having a simple GB sticker on the rear window, that had been there for years, when it was registered in the UK. Even after he'd removed it, he still kept getting pulled over. It was only the intervention of his companies legal department, that stopped the harassment.

Eh?

They kept pulling him over for a GB sticker he no longer had on the car?

The way I understand it, he was then "marked", and if the Local German Police Had nothing better to do, they'd pull him, just because....they knew he was different, and struggled a bit with the language. I was 12 when he told my dad this, and IIRC it was something like 9 stops in 5 months. Mind you I was more interested in his explanation of his writing off of said car some time later, coming off the autobahn, and failing to make the tight "off bend" at speed.

[youngsyr]

Cliftonite said:

youngsyr said:

sherbertdip said:

Head not exploding, but really, why????????

Why not??????????????????????????????????

Because it makes a lovely car look ste?

Well in my opinion a bog standard English plate makes the car look like ste - my preference would be no front plate, but that would no doubt get me in trouble very quickly, so I view the German style front plate as the least worst option.

[Cliftonite]

youngsyr said:

Well in my opinion a bog standard English plate makes the car look like ste - my preference would be no front plate, but that would no doubt get me in trouble very quickly, so I view the German style front plate as the least worst option.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, no matter how misguided it is!



Still a lovely car, though!